Should the UK’s Turing Institute build a sovereign base model?
chalmermagne · x · 2026-07-20
A thread argues that the UK’s Turing Institute should probably not make a "medium-scale sovereign base model" its focus.
The author questions whether this is a tractable or useful mission for a national AI institute, framing it as a strategic choice about what public AI labs should build.
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